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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Continual \Con*tin"u*al\, adjective [OE. continuel, F. continuel. See {Continue}.]
1. Proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.
He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. --Prov. xv. 15.
2. Occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.
The eye is deligh by a continental succession of small landscapes. --W. Irwing.
{Continual proportionals} (Math.), quantities in continued proportion. --Brande & C.
Syn: Constant; prepetual; incessant; unceasing; uninterrupted; unintermitted; continuous. See {Constant}, and {Continuous}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
continual
adjective
1: seemingly without interruption; chiefly restricted to what recurs regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series; "the continual banging of the shutters" [ant: {sporadic}]
2: 'continual' (meaning seemingly uninterrupted) is often used interchangeably with 'continuous' (meaning without interruption)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "continual": ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, chattering, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, featureless, gapless, immediate, immemorial, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, machine gun, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonstop, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, oscillating, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, persistent, pulsating, rapid, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, staccato, steady, straight, stuttering, sustained, timeless, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vibrating, without end
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